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The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™
presents:
A Sense of Place
The Anglo-American Cultural Exchange
and the
Development of Community
in Wartime England,
1942-1945
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Noted military historian and film maker Dr. Vernon Williams brings his
expertise to the Village for our May 10 Chautauqua lecture. Dr. Williams,
who teaches at Abilene Christian University, is the author of both books
and films on recent history, particularly the American Eighth Air Force
in World War II.
 Professor Williams has traveled across both the United States and England,
interviewing the World War II generation including British family members
who lived in the small rural villages that surrounded the American bases
in England during the war. Using these extraordinary digital video interviews
of both the Americans and their British neighbors, Dr. Williams has produced
and directed seven documentary films about life in the East Anglia farm
lands and the air front that extended from runways across England’s heartland
deep into the darkness that was Hitler’s empire in Europe. In the spring
of 2004 Williams traveled to Los Angeles to accept the National Broadcasting
Society’s Best Documentary for 2004 award for his Deopham Green, a film about the 452nd Bomb Group stationed at Deopham Green near Norwich
on the British coast.
Listeners can expect to share the unique insights which Dr. Williams brings
to hand from these extensive contacts with the people and places actually
involved in the American Air Force campaign against Germany during the
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
11:00 AM-12:30 PM in the Village Gallery
Admission: $5 (includes all day admission to the Village
and free use of a sound wand for the day)
For more information, call: (325) 572-3365
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Our ongoing Chautauqua Learning Series is based on the Chautauqua movement
which spread throughout the rural United States in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. It provided educational lectures and entertainment for
average Americans before the advent of mass media like radio and television.
The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™ is proud to continue the
spirit of that tradition in the unique setting of the Buffalo Gap Historic
Village.
The Grady McWhiney Research Foundation would like to say Thank You to our
honored suporters for helping us make the Chautauqua experience available
to our community: The Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Judd White ~ CBS Insurance
LLP, and Red Steagall.
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